The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-29
ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Parloa has given up her cooking
school, and will spend the next year lee
turing in the South.
Women are the State librarians Of Indi-
ana, Iowa. Kentucky. Louisiana, Michi-
gan, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Miss Alice e. Freeman wiIl'read paper
on Colleges for Women" before the
National Educational Association ia Chi
cago In July.
Those japanese women who are allow
% TO read outside books are now busy with
Pilgrims Progress, which has just been
translated Into their language.
Mis- Mary Fridley has been elected
musical director to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Prof. Lynch in the
Georgia Musical Association.
Miss Kate Stoneman, of Albany, N. Y,
the first woman admitted to the bar in
that State, addressed the senior class at
vassar College. recently, on The Higher
Education of Women"
Miss Andrews, one of the Wellesley
professors, knows Hawaiian. and greeted
Queen Kapiolani with complimentary
speech In her native tongue when the
queen visited the college.
Miss Ottawa Hill, WHO has done SO
much to improve the condition of London
Sums, proposes to set up in Southwar
kind OF palace of entertainment for the
poor people of that district.
Els P. Buckingham successfully man
ages fruit farm of several hundred acres
IN California. and urges other women to
take up the same kind of work, for which
she thinks women are well fitted.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will be
associated with Mrs Martha j. Lamb in
editing the Magazine of American His
tory" She will probably take charge of
department under her own name.
All the housework of Wellesley College
is done by the students, VINO devote to it
forty-Hye minutes out of the twenty-four
hours. There are 300 girls, and every
girl is trained to do one kind of work,
and to do it quickly and WELL Co-opera-
ton saves vast deal of time and'iabor.
A woman served as one of the election
clerks at Big Rapids, Michigan, last week,
but 1t was very tame affair. She insist
ed on an honest count, and when it was
over went home as if from mite society,
instead of getting tight and bowling
around like sensible patri1t.-Omana
World
Rev. Mrs, JEANNE NJ Jones, of Fort
| Wayne, Ind is a regularly ordained min
lister in the Christian New Light Church.
| She has administered the ordinance of
| baptism on two occasions, and intends to
| do so hereafter when desired. She is al
eloquent speaker, and always has large
congregation.
Mrs, Agnew and Miss Dodge. the two
women members of The New York School
! Board, pay particular attention. to the SAN
itary condition of the schools, and 10 all
matters relating to the comfort of the
buildings, They notice little defects
which escape the attention of men. The
janitors are said to be dlsmayed when
asked to show the cellars.
DIR. Kate /. Kelsey, of Menomnee Wis.
lately received an earnest invitation TO
enter into partnership with DIR. Martha
6. Ripley, of Minneapolis But the peo-
pie of Menominee would not let her go
They raised her salary as city physician,
elected her to tbc school board, made her
handsome presents aud handsome prom
Uses, and succeeded in keeping her.
The money for the Calhoun monument.
/ just unveiled in Charleston, s. O., was
raised by eleven lad .es, who first met to
devise plans in 1854. When the war
broke out, the funds amounted TO $4,000
securely invested The intelligence and
fidelity of the treasurer, Mrs. Snowden,
saved this from the wreck of war,
although all her private property was
destroyed. In 1880, when the books were
examined. it was fund that through the
busness-l Ike manner IN which the fund
was managed, the securities had become
| worth nearly $50, 600.